Isaiah 33:12
So shall peoples, become, as the burnings of lime,—As thorns lopped off, with fire, shall they be burned.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
In Context
11Ye shall conceive chaff Ye shall bring forth stubble,—Your own breath, like fire, shall devour you.
13Hear—ye that are far off. what I have done, And know—ye that are near my might:
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6But, as for the abandoned, like thorns to be tossed away are they all,—For, not with the hand, can they be taken;
Isaiah 9:17For this cause, over their choice young men, will My Lord not rejoice, And on their fatherless and their widows, will he not have compassion, For every one of them, is profane and an evildoer, And, every mouth is speaking baseness,—For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But still, is his hand outstretched.
Isaiah 10:17So shall, the Light of Israel, become, a fire, And his Holy One, a flame, Which shall burn and consume his thorns and his briars, in one day;
Isaiah 37:36Then went forth the messenger of Yahweh, and smote—in the camp of the Assyrians—a hundred and eighty-five thousand,—and when men arose early in the morning, lo! they were all, dead bodies!
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 33:2-13
Assyria Threatened. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2 O Lord , be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself… Read the whole commentary →